affuse is a Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) implementation that allows AFF files to appear as raw files on Linux systems. This allows the files to be processed with forensic tools that do not understand AFF. It also allows the disk images to be actually mounted, should you want to do that.

For example, say that /project/0089.aff is a disk image that you wish to process with raw tools. With affuse you can mount it like this: